Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

QUEEN VIoToRIA's coach IN aker's have
just renovated one of Her Majestys six
stage coaches in preparation for the court
functions of the jubilee year. The door
handles and armorial bearings are Of
gold, as also are the crest and Order of
st. George upon the roof. The body of
with gold, and the springs and all the
ironwork are gilt. Representations of
the crown and garter are among the
adornments of the equipage, which
is lined with blue silk. No fewer than
1000 leaves of gold were used in the
decoration.
THERE is now in the Museum of the
Royal College of Surgeons in London an
artificial leg found in an ancient Roman
tomb at Capua in 1885. The vases dis
covered in the same tomb indicate that
the leg was used by person who lived
about the year 800 B. G. This artificial
limb is made chiefly of pieces of thin
bronze fastened to core of wood. A few
pieces of iron were also used in making
it, The skeleton to which it belonged
was found entire, with the exception of
the leg that It replaced.
THERE were eighty-one important
strikes throughout the country last year,
in forty of which the strikers failed al
together, while seventeen ended in COM
promise. About 900 persons we're at
one time or other on strike. The aggre-
are unknown, but the former undoubted-
ly lost more than the latter. Last year was
not more favorable for strikes than the
average year, but the records of even the
best year show that strikes are costly and
clumsy methods of conducting industrial
controversies.
FORTY THOUSAND workingmen employed
in connection with the vessel interests in
and around the city of New York are en-
strike. The strikers include IOngshore
men, grain-handlers, coal-shovelers grain
trimmers, bag-sewers, canal-boatmen.
The great ocean steamships and all other
vessels in the harbor and alongshore are
detained in their docks in consequence.
Old Dominion Steamship Company to
pay an advance to their coal handlers, the
others striking in sympathy with them.
The inhabitants of Humphrey, a small
village near Oiean. n. Y, are in great
state of excitement over the nocturnal
visits of huge panther. The hamlet is
situated in valley completely surround
ed by mountains covered with dense for
ests. A large number of sheep, calves,
and hogs have been destroyed by the
panther, and several persons narrowly
escape with their lives. A farmer named
Whitney was imprisoned in small out
building one cold night and nearly froz-
en-. The panther stood guard at the door
while devouring sheep. Whitney's fam
ily heard his cries for assistance, but dar-
ed not venture out of the house. A church
congregation had assembled at the school
house one evening last week, was impris-
oned for three hours by the panther. All
the male inhabitants plucked up courage
the other day, and, armed with ancient
shotguns, rusty rifles, and various weap-
ons, and led by mongrel pack of dogs,
they hunted the panther. The dogs dis
woods, three miles from the village. He
took refuge in a tall hemlock, but not
before he had killed two of the most
courageous ours. Then from safe dis
lance volley of musket balls and buck
hot ;~f~ he - rbor he